Penetration testing and red team operations, run by people who do this every day. Think like an attacker. Test like one. Every finding exploit-verified, every report written for decisions, not shelf space.
A scanner tells you what might be wrong. We tell you what an attacker would actually do, by doing it, in a controlled, contracted, fully documented way. Our engagements follow battle-tested structure: PTES for process, OWASP for application depth, and MITRE ATT&CK to map real attack techniques. The difference is the experts behind it.
A focused, time-boxed assault on a defined scope: your web apps, APIs, external perimeter, internal network or Active Directory. We find the ways in, chain them, prove impact, and hand you the fix list.
No defined scope, but a defined objective. We emulate a real intrusion set over weeks: phishing, initial access, lateral movement, exfiltration. Your defenders don't know we're coming. That's the point.
Our operators attack while sitting next to your blue team. Every technique is executed, detected (or not), and tuned on the spot. The fastest way to level up an internal SOC we know of.
Gathering information about the target: exposed systems, technologies in use, employees, suppliers. Much of it is possible without any contact with the target at all.
Exploit and payload are combined into a deliverable artefact, a prepared document or a manipulated file, for instance.
The artefact reaches the target: through phishing, a compromised website, removable media, or directly via an exposed service.
The vulnerability is triggered: code executes, a misconfiguration is abused, or captured credentials are put to use.
Access is made persistent so it survives a reboot, a password change, or the closing of the original gap.
An outbound channel is established. From here a human operates the compromised system remotely and moves further through the network.
Only here does the actual damage occur: exfiltrating data, encrypting it, manipulating it, or disrupting operations.
↯Every phase is a chance to break the chain. The earlier it breaks, the smaller the damage. An attack that ends at phase 04 is an incident; one that reaches phase 07 is a crisis. A penetration test establishes whether the chain can form in your environment at all.
Model: Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain®
DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 and TIBER-EU all expect offensive testing. One engagement, several boxes ticked, with evidence auditors accept.
Findings are ranked by real exploitability, so your next security euro lands exactly where an attacker would actually go first.
A scoped test costs a fraction of one ransomware weekend. Breach response, downtime and regulatory fines compound. Testing doesn't.
Executive summary in business language, technical depth for engineers. Clear risk ratings and a remediation path.
EU enforcement tightens every year. Demonstrable offensive testing is becoming table stakes across finance, industry and KRITIS.
Every finding is exploited and evidenced: screenshots, paths, impact. Zero scanner noise, zero false-positive debates.
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A vulnerability assessment runs about a week. A scoped penetration test typically takes 2–4 weeks including reporting. Red team engagements run 4–8 weeks because stealth takes time. You'll get a precise timeline in the scoping call, and we hit it.
No. We agree rules of engagement up front: testing windows, excluded systems, emergency contacts and a kill switch. Destructive actions are never executed; we prove impact (e.g. that we could encrypt or exfiltrate) without causing it. In years of operations we have a clean record on production stability.
Three things: an executive summary your board can read in five minutes, a technical report with reproduction steps and evidence for every finding, and a live debrief where we walk your team through the attack paths and answer everything. Retesting of fixes is included in Tier 2 and above.
Yes. AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365 are core scopes for us, including Entra ID attack paths, IAM misconfigurations and hybrid identity. We stay within each provider's testing policies, so no special permission paperwork is needed for standard scopes.
A scan lists potential weaknesses, including hundreds that don't matter. We exploit and chain findings the way a real attacker would, which changes the picture completely: a "medium" misconfiguration plus a "low" information leak is often a complete domain compromise. Scanners can't see chains. Experts can.
Our testing supports NIS2, DORA (including threat-led testing aligned with TIBER-EU), ISO 27001 control evidence, and TISAX assessments. We map findings to the relevant framework on request so your auditor gets exactly what they need.
Mostly, yes. External tests are fully remote. Internal tests run via a hardened jump box we ship to you or deploy virtually: plug it in, we handle the rest. On-site work (physical intrusion, hardware, workshops) is available across the DACH region when the scope calls for it.
Strict data minimization: we prove access without bulk-collecting content, anything captured as evidence is encrypted at rest, stored on EU infrastructure, and destroyed after an agreed retention period. Everything operates under NDA and a DSGVO-compliant data processing agreement. We're German; we take this part personally.
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There's no flat price, but there are understandable factors. What makes a pentest expensive or cheap, which day rates and ranges to expect, and how to spot a mislabelled offering.
"Once a year" is a rule of thumb, not a strategy. How to build a pentest programme that matches your company's risk, compliance and pace of change.
Bug bounty platforms promise the swarm intelligence of thousands of hackers. Where that holds up and where a dedicated red team with context and repeatability wins.
In the cloud the infrastructure isn't yours, but your configuration is. What you may test in AWS, Azure and GCP, where the limits are, and why cloud pentests follow their own rules.
You invest in security tools, but do they hold up against a real attack? Breach and Attack Simulation tests your controls continuously and automatically, instead of hoping once a year.
A free 30-minute scoping call with one of our experts. We'll tell you what we'd target first, what tier fits, and what it costs, candidly.